Re: Voting scripts...

2002-03-09 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Nicholas Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I wonder what Transport for London's vote counting script is written in: http://www.transportforlondon.gov.uk/cgi-bin/ppp_vote?0 I wonder if it will cope with the superior rapid ballot stuffing abilities of perl? It will. I wonder if that

Re: Voting scripts...

2002-03-08 Thread Peter Haworth
On 07 Mar 2002 07:42:37 -0800, (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote: No, that's what it's been bastardized to mean. Originally, GET was for idempotent operations, and POST was for things that change the state of the server. Hence, GETs can be cached, but POSTs never are. Of course, like everything on

Voting scripts...

2002-03-07 Thread Nicholas Clark
I wonder what Transport for London's vote counting script is written in: http://www.transportforlondon.gov.uk/cgi-bin/ppp_vote?0 I wonder if it will cope with the superior rapid ballot stuffing abilities of perl? I wonder if that would be counter productive? Nicholas Clark

Re: Voting scripts...

2002-03-07 Thread Roger Burton West
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 09:20:19AM +, Nicholas Clark wrote: I wonder what Transport for London's vote counting script is written in: http://www.transportforlondon.gov.uk/cgi-bin/ppp_vote?0 I think it would have been more reasonable to post the address of the voting page

Re: Voting scripts...

2002-03-07 Thread Simon Wistow
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 09:47:56AM +, Roger Burton West said: I wonder if it will cope with the superior rapid ballot stuffing abilities of perl? I wonder if that would be counter productive? They probably aren't clued enough to spot it; and if they do, they'll turn to Microsoft, who'll

Re: Voting scripts...

2002-03-07 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 09:47:56AM +, Roger Burton West wrote: On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 09:20:19AM +, Nicholas Clark wrote: I wonder what Transport for London's vote counting script is written in: http://www.transportforlondon.gov.uk/cgi-bin/ppp_vote?0 I think it would have been

Re: Voting scripts...

2002-03-07 Thread Roger Burton West
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 01:38:43PM +, Nicholas Clark wrote: But am I wrong to assume that people are intelligent enough not just to click on random links without realising that there may be some consequences? I don't know about the membership of this list, but bearing in mind that it's

Re: Voting scripts...

2002-03-07 Thread Mark Fowler
On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Nicholas Clark wrote: But am I wrong to assume that people are intelligent enough not just to click on random links without realising that there may be some consequences? Hmm. Didn't I read that GET operations are not meant to have side effects. Isn't that's what post

Re: Voting scripts...

2002-03-07 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 02:43:23PM +, Mark Fowler wrote: On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Nicholas Clark wrote: But am I wrong to assume that people are intelligent enough not just to click on random links without realising that there may be some consequences? Hmm. Didn't I read that GET

RE: Voting scripts...

2002-03-07 Thread iwilliams
Paul Makepeace wrote: On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 02:43:23PM +, Mark Fowler wrote: On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Nicholas Clark wrote: But am I wrong to assume that people are intelligent enough not just to click on random links without realising that there may be some consequences? Hmm.

Re: Voting scripts...

2002-03-07 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Paul == Paul Makepeace [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hmm. Didn't I read that GET operations are not meant to have side effects. Isn't that's what post operations are for? Paul I thought POST was a way to send more data (GETs only guaranteed up to Paul 1024 chars), and/or data wrapped as a